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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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PIM workshop at ICAE 2018 explored challenges and opportunities for rural transformation in the 21st century
22.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On July 28, as part of the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), the…
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CIAT Strategy refreshed for 2018–2020
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the five years that have passed since CIAT’s current strategy (2014–2020)1 was prepared, we…
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Unlocking the potential for agricultural development in the Middle East and North Africa
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY ELENA HILDEBRANDT Agricultural production and economic development are often neglected in policy …
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Assam farmers learn about technologies that increase yield and improve rice farming efficiency
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agriculture in Assam accounts for over a third of income generated in the state, and…
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Breaking new ground for sustainable architecture in Central Africa
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Democratic Republic of the Congo - All over Central Africa, it is a common sight…
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Ethiopia’s new forestry law: A win for landscapes and livelihoods?
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ethiopia - The Ethiopian government has a big dream: restoring 22 million hectares of degraded…
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Women at work
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nepal - Nestled in Nepal’s southern subtropical Terai lowlands, Chitwan National Park looks worlds…
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Trade conflict is a lose-lose game
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SHENGGEN FAN After many years of rapid growth, serious trade tensions have emerged between…
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Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa swine fever, which recently appeared in Shenyang City, in Liaoning Province, northeastern Chi…
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An app to help African rice farmers beat weeds
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AfricaRice recently launched a powerful decision-support tool, called RiceAdvice-WeedManager, to hel…
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A thriving community of women seed producers
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It started with just three women farmers who were part of a pilot from Pagou…
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Water impact: When over 15,000 tanks were restored, how did lives of smallholder farmers change?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Soil, water and socio-economic impact of Telangana state government’s Mission Kakatiya to be asses…
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Tying up with one of China’s oldest agri-science academies to accelerate modern research pursuits
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To foster joint academic and research pursuits and to explore future collaborative ventures, the Zhe…
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A global strategy for the conservation and use of coconut genetic resources
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An updated global strategy launched by the International Coconut Genetic Resources Network/Bioversit…
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Today’s the day to celebrate indigenous peoples!
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indigenous communities are crucial to the protection and monitoring of the world’s most precious e…
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Nigeria workshop seeks to scale up proven technologies, boost aquaculture production in West and Central Africa
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Participants from several West and Central African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Iv…
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Rights in the DRC: Whose rights matter?
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Democratic Republic of the Congo - “We need change,” says Dorothée Lisenga, indigenous delegate…
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Study tour to Bangladesh fosters knowledge-sharing on rice-fish systems
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rice-fish systems are common in many South and Southeast Asian countries. A week-long visit to…
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